Tuesday, December 02, 2008

A Squirrel Ate My Car!

So, I drive a PT Cruiser. I love that car! It's small, but big when I need it, and it's cute with lot's of tailgating potential. I take good care of it, so when it started acting funny the past day or two, I told hubs to take it in to Chrysler for an oil change and to have it checked out.

He called me later and told me that a squirrel had gotten under the hood and decided it looked awful homey, so it built a nest using ohh, insulation and wiring it managed to gnaw from the ENGINE!

WTF? I drive my car everyday, so it's not idle. We don't have any trees around our house and we live in a subdivision, not the boonies. This is going to cost mayjah $$ to fix, but the worst part is the little *&%^$#er will come back and rebuild! This isn't New Orleans, you squirrely little bastard!

I've heard of this happening up north, but not in Florida! Does anyone know what I should do?

Seriously, I understand why you're upset, and I really wish I had a solution for you. Unlike you, I live in the boonies, and I've never had this happened to me, yet. Actually, that's not entirely true. We had a cat hiding in the engine of my avalanche a few years ago. We tried everything to coax him out, but the feline was just too terrified to come out. But (and I know the animal rights activists are gonna cringe at this), the only thing that finally worked was hosing the cat full blast. He shot out from under the hood like a bat out of hell. And ran, never looking back.